經文: 「我們靠著聖靈，憑著信心，等候所盼望的義。」— [聖經·加拉太書 5章5節]
聖經上說：「我心裡柔和謙卑，你們要負我的軛，學我的樣式；這樣，你們心裡就必得享安息。」(馬太福音 十一29)，要忍耐、柔和、謙卑，向上帝降服，就是要倒空自己，將屬亞當的老我釘死，將心完全降服給耶穌，這是高度信心的舉動；如此就可脫離罪的轄制，由聖靈管理的全人生活，能活出柔和謙卑的樣式。
當你把心獻給耶穌，你就住在至高者的隱密處，祂要在你裡面活，聖靈也要在你裡面運行。當耶穌柔和謙卑成為你的內化與氣質時，你就活出基督，那麼現在活著的不再是你，乃是基督活在你裡面；除非人願意向老我死，聖靈是無法內住於人心的；惟有選擇宣告向自己死，向上帝活，上帝的恩典與能力才能臨到。
當你心急衝動、老我顯露，或是自視甚高、驕傲抬頭時，趕緊轉向耶穌，安靜在上帝面前，放下自己的一切，將自己交在全能者的手中，才能得享安息。尤其在你越浮躁動盪、越沮喪氣餒的時候，就越要親近上帝；因為只有從上帝那兒才能得著真正的安息與耐性，但有一點我們要確知的就是我們安息的程度，是和我們交託給上帝的信心成正比。
這經文雖短，卻富含真理，知道全備的救恩，是要帶領人完全的降服於耶穌，緊緊的與聖靈連接，活出基督的樣式，散發出耶穌馨香之氣。
「主啊！願祢常住我心，我也當默想祢的柔和謙卑、耐心順服；求主施恩，讓祢的情感，屬靈的美德內化在我靈魂中。奉主耶穌基督聖名祈求，阿們。」
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 8月22日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『 Faith in CHRIST 』
Scripture: “For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.” — (Galatians 5:5)
“In the words of Christ, ‘Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls,’ you have two truths asserted. First that to be given up to Patience, Meekness, Humility and Resignation to God, is strictly the same thing as to learn of Christ, or to have faith in Him. And that because the inclination of your heart towards these virtues is truly giving up all that you are, and all that you have from fallen Adam; it is perfectly leaving all that you have, and your highest act of faith in Him. Therefore all the blessing and deliverance from sin from any degree of faith and hope in Christ are sure of being led and governed by His Spirit of Patience, Meekness, Humility and Resignation to God. Whilst you shut up yourself in these, you are in the very arms of Christ, your whole heart is His dwelling place, and He lives and works in you. When these tempers live and abide in you, as the spirit and aim of your life, then Christ is in you of a truth, and the life that you then lead is not yours, but it is Christ that liveth in you. The Spirit of Divine Love can have no place or possibility of birth in any fallen creature till it wills and chooses to be dead to all self, in a patient, meek, humble, resignation to the good power and mercy of God. And when your own impatience or pride attacks you, stand turned to this humble resignation and leave and give up yourself to be helped by the mercy of God. The greater the perplexity of your distress is, the nearer you are to the greatest and best relief, provided you have but patience to expect it all from God. And be assured that we have neither more nor less of the Divine operation within us but just and strictly in that degree as our faith and hope and trust are upon God more or less.
“These are short but full articles of true religion, which carry salvation along with them, which make a true and full offering and oblation of our whole nature to the Divine operation, and are also a true and full confession of the Holy Trinity in Unity.”
Let now your one thonght be: It is now the whole bent and design of my soul to seek for my salvation alone through the mediation of the meek, humble, patient, resigned Lamb of God, who alone has power to bring forth the blessed birth of these heavenly virtues in my soul.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 22 August 」
